New Books: October 2013
Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.
Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of Books, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).
Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.
- A Vineyard Odyssey: The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature by Kiger, John (Rowman and Littlefield 2013, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442221901)
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About the Hearth: Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North by Anderson, David G., Robert P. Wishart, and Virginie Vaté, eds (Berghahn Books 2013, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=AndersonAbout)
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Africa’s Moment by Severino, Jean-Michel, Ray Olivier (Polity Books 2013, http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745651576)
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Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisée Reclus by Clark, John and Camille Martin (PM Press 2013, https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=565)
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Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou by Moses, Jennifer Anne (University of Wisconsin Press 2013, http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4301.htm)
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California through Russian Eyes, 1806–1848 by Gibson, James R., ed (The Arthur H. Clark Co. 2013, http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1779/california through russian eyes 1806 1848)
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Chronicling the West for Harper’s: Coast to Coast with Frenzeny & Tavernier in 1873–1874 by Chalmers, Claudine (University of Oklahoma Press 2013, http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1782/chronicling the west for harper 27s)
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Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry by Thurston, Robert W., Jonathan Morris, and Shawn Steinman, eds (Rowman and Littlefield 2013, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442214408)
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Corporate Sovereignty: Law and Government under Capitalism by Barkan, Joshua (University of Minnesota Press 2013, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/corporate-sovereignty)
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Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade by Walvin, James (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo16826299.html)
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Cuisine Empire: Cooking in World History by Laudan, Rachel (University of California Press 2013, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520266452)
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Developing the Rivers of East and West Africa: An Environmental History by Hoag, Heather J (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/developing-the-rivers-of-east-and-west-africa-9781441155405/)
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Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast by Wright, Alice P., and Edward R. Henry (University Press of Florida 2013, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=WRIGH002)
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Encountering Gorillas: A Chronicle of Discovery, Exploitation, Understanding, and Survival by Newman, James L. (Rowman and Littlefield 2013, https://rowman.com/ISBN/978-1-4422-1955-7)
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Faith Based: Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States by Hackworth, Jason (University of Georgia Press 2012, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/faith_based)
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The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet by Ruse, Michael (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo10665496.html)
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Geographies of Race and Food: Fields, Bodies, Markets by Slocum, Rachel, and Arun Saldanha, eds (Ashgate 2013, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409469278)
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Geopiracy: Oaxaca, Militant Empiricism, and Geographical Thought by Wainwright, Joel (Palgrave Macmillan 2012, http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137301758)
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GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones by Easton, Richard D. and Eric F. Frazier (Potomac Books 2013, http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=293771)
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The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush by Igler, David (Oxford University Press 2013, http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-great-ocean-9780199914951;jsessionid=7EB929AB73BF0B303CEA3C61E6988430?cc=us&lang=en&)
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Greater Mekong Subregion: From Geographical to Socio-economic Integration by Shrestha, Omkar Lal and Aekapol Chongvilaivan (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2013, https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/1242)
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The Handbook of Food Research by Murcott, Anne, Warren Belasco, Peter Jackson (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-handbook-of-food-research-9781847889164/)
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The Hydropolitics of Dams: Engineering or Ecosystems? by Everard, Mark (Zed Books 2013, http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/node/11833)
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Landscapes of Mobility: Culture, Politics, and Placemaking by Sen, Arijit and Jennifer Johung, eds (Ashgate 2013, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409442813)
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The Last Days of the Rainbelt by Wishart, David J (University of Nebraska Press 2013, http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Last-Days-of-the-Rainbelt,675734.aspx)
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Latin American Development by Cupples, Julie (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415680622/)
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Learning, Capability Building and Innovation for Development by Dutrénit, Gabriela, Keun Lee, Richard Nelson, Luc Soete, and Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz (Palgrave Macmillan 2013, http://us.macmillan.com/learningcapabilitybuildingandinnovationfordevelopment/GabrielaDutrénit)
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Making in America: From Innovation to Market by Berger, Suzanne (MIT Press 2013, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/making-america)
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Mammoths and the Environment by Ukraintseva, Valentina V (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/life-sciences/evolutionary-biology/mammoths-and-environment)
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Masculinities in Chinese History by Hinsch, Bret (Rowman and Littlefield 2013, https://rowman.com/ISBN/978-1-4422-2235-9)
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Modeling Electric Distribution with GIS by Meehan, Bill (ESRI Press 2013, http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=223&moduleID=0)
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Monitoring Biodiversity: Lessons from a Trans-Andean Megaproject (Bilingual) by Alonso, Alfonso, Francisco Dallmeier, and Grace P. Servat, eds (Smithsonian Institution Press 2013, http://scholarlypress.si.edu/content.cfm?page=new)
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Mountain Geography: Physical and Human Dimensions by Price, Martin F., Alton C. Byers, Donald A. Friend, Thomas Kohler, and Larry W. Price, eds (University of California Press 2013, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520254312)
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Moving Safely: Crime and Perceived Safety in Stockholm’s Subway Stations by Ceccato, Vania (Lexington Books 2013, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739177617)
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Nashville in the New Millennium: Immigrant Settlement, Urban Transformation, and Social Belonging by Winders, Jamie (Russell Sage Foundation 2013, https://www.russellsage.org/publications/nashville-new-millennium)
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New Developments in Spatial Economics and Economic Geography by McCann, Philip (Edward Elgar 2013, http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=13494)
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The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals by White, Ben, Saturnino Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Wendy Wolford, eds (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415823746/)
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Of Palm Wine, Women and War: The Mongolian Naval Expedition to Java in the 13th Century by Bade, David (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2013, https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/1909)
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Oil in the Environment: Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by Wiens, John A (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/life-sciences/natural-resource-management-agriculture-horticulture-and/oil-environment-legacies-and-lessons-exxon-valdez-oil-spill)
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Painters and the American West, Vol. II by Hunt, Sarah A., James P. Rhonda, Joan Carpenter Troccoli, and John Wilmerding (University of Oklahoma Press 2013, http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1801/painters and the american west vol 2)
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The Palm Oil Controversy in Southeast Asia: A Transnational Perspective by Pye, Oliver and Jayati Bhattacharya (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2012, https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/1238)
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The Pecan: A History of America’s Native Nut by McWilliams, James (University of Texas Press 2013, http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/mcwpec)
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Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats by Biehler, Dawn Day (University of Washington Press 2013, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/BIEFLI.html)
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The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the World’s Greatest Botanical Explorers by Fry, Carolyn (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo17224006.html)
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Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century by Clifford, James (Harvard University Press 2013, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724921)
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Romantic Geography: In Search of the Sublime Landscape by Tuan, Yi-Fu (University of Wisconsin Press 2013, http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5252.htm)
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Science, Philosophy and Physical Geography, 2nd Edition by Inkpen, Robert and Graham Wilson (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415679664/)
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Second Cities: Globalization and Local Politics in Manchester and Philadelphia by Hodos, Jerome I (Temple University Press 2013, http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2081_reg.html)
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Seeds, Science, and Struggle: The Global Politics of Transgenic Crops by Kinchy, Abby (MIT Press 2012, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/seeds-science-and-struggle-0)
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Social Capital and Rural Development in the Knowledge Society by Westlund, Hans and Kiyoshi Kobayashi, eds (Edward Elgar 2013, http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?currency=US&id=15261)
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The Social Life of Water by Wagner, John R (Berghahn Books 2013, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=WagnerSocial)
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Space, Place, and Violence: Violence and the Embodied Geographies of Race, Sex, and Gender by Tyner, James A (Routledge 2012, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415880855/)
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Spatial Questions: Cultural Topologies and Social Spatialisation by Shields, Rob (SAGE 2013, http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book233758)
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“Strange Lands and Different Peoples”: Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala by Lovell, W. George and Christopher H. Lutz (University of Oklahoma Press 2013, http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1771/strange lands and different peoples)
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Taken by Storm: A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane by Avilés, Lourdes B (American Meteorological Society 2013, https://secure.ametsoc.org/amsbookstore/viewProductInfo.cfm?productID=95)
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Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869–1929 by Knight, Henry (University Press of Florida 2013, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=KNIGH002)
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Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas: Ecology, Conservation, and Management by Sanchez-Azofeifa, Arturo, Jennifer S. Powers, Geraldo W. Fernandes, Mauricio Quesada, eds (CRC Press 2013, http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466512009)
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Water Without Borders? Canada, the United States, and Shared Waters by Norman, Emma S., Alice Cohen, and Karen Bakker (University of Toronto Press 2013, http://www.utppublishing.com/Water-without-Borders-Canada-the-United-States-and-Shared-Waters.html)
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Writing Food History: A Global Perspective by Claflin, Kyri W. and Peter Scholliers, eds (Bloomsbury 2012, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/writing-food-history-9781847888082/)